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Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva samples as well as blood," says Schleede, a geneticist who runs Herasight Inc.'s lab in Morrisville, N.C. "We also...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...

the silhouettes of three people. Two are red and are on either side. A pink person is slightly higher than the rest with an arrow pointing up and a star at the top.
By Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, Literary Hub | 03.27.2023

When the gentleman-​scholar Francis Galton inspected his fellow men of Victorian Britain, he found them wanting: “We want abler commanders...

a person with gloves in a lab setting holding a test tube.
By Lisa Rosenbaum, New England Journal of Medicine | 03.23.2023

Ethan Weiss: I think it became incredibly clear to me during Covid when . . . I don’t know...

a blue DNA double helix with various lines of genetic code in the background.
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 03.23.2023

THE 2018 ARREST of Joseph James DeAngelo, infamously known as the Golden State Killer, put genetic genealogy on the map...

a photo of the Francis Crick Institute
By Françoise Baylis, Impact Ethics | 03.22.2023

photo by Miguel Descart licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

In early March, I was in London, England for the Third...

A pencil with genetic code replacing the wooden shaft of the pencil
By Editorial, The Lancet | 03.18.2023

In 2018, during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, Jiankui He shocked the world by...

IVF with the cells in the embryo in the shape of a question mark
By Natasha Mitchell, ABC [feat. CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.17.2023

Chinese scientist Dr Jiankui He flouted the law and bioethics basics to create the world's first CRISPR gene edited babies...

A wrench on top of the human genome to symbolize gene editing
By Grace Browne, Wired [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.17.2023

Last Week in London, a small group of protestors braved it out in the rain in front of the Francis...

A series of red blood cells, some are sickle shaped
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.16.2023

Victoria Gray was wandering through the British Museum in London last week when she spotted a small wooden cross hanging...